Technological advances and the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a significant paradigm shift in the field of education, especially in the field of distance education. In this period, although distance education offers a number of advantages to its users, it has also brought some difficulties. This sudden transition has had a profound impact on…

My dissertation studies the relationship between counseling and violence within U.S. schools. Much of the research on school security and school safety tends to lean heavily on routine activities theory and other opportunity theories, which limits the study of other factors critically relevant to this topic such as school climate. This…

The study of social demand and labor demand analyzes the relevance of the planning of higher education programs to meet the needs of society. Given this, the present study aims to identify social and labor demand in the Amazon region, through a case study applied in the province of Rodríguez de Mendoza. The methodology used was a descriptive,…

College and career readiness programs are critical for vulnerable student populations, including low-income, economically disadvantaged students, and students of color, because these students have been historically and consistently identified as not college and career ready. Many factors contribute to the culmination of readiness that goes beyond…

Employability development has become a central concern of higher education, with many students attending university to enhance their employability and career development. Universities offer a range of curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular employability-building activities, including work-integrated learning, mentoring and career…

Social anxiety is common in adolescents and often persists into adulthood. Many previous studies have addressed this issue and its interventions in a general psychological context, but not much has focused on the educational sphere. This study aims to explore counsellor strategies for overcoming social anxiety in adolescents and to analyze whether…

This quantitative study, guided by the critical race theory theoretical framework, was conducted to investigate the relationship between academic burnout and psychosocial needs among Black doctoral students in counseling education and supervision (CES) programs. This study highlights the prevalence and patterns of perceived met psychological needs…

Healthcare professionals and individuals underutilize substance use screenings, driving exploration of innovative approaches like virtual agent-guided screening. This study assessed the virtual counselor app's equivalence to in-person evaluation for substance use screening. Participants also completed a user experience questionnaire and a…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how middle school teachers in the Southwestern United States described the role of coping strategies in their decision to remain in the teaching profession, specifically focusing on emotion-focused and problem-focused strategies. Lazarus and Folkman's theory of stress and coping and…

The goal of this study was to understand the relationship between the graduation rates of first-generation college students and the offering of multidisciplinary student support services by universities. Recent decades have witnessed a rise in first-generation college students, but little research on their graduation rates. The literature is also…

This study takes a novel qualitative approach to the investigation of everyday insight experience. It offers ecological validation to findings principally rendered, prior to this research, from a quantitative, cognitive standpoint. In addition, it considers emotional as well as cognitive components of insight. Participants were given different (or…

There is a dearth of research concerning the career development and counselling issues that are relevant for high school students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ). As such, little is known to understand LGBTQ students when it comes to their career-related struggles and needs. This article attempts to examine…

In the contemporary world, many people find themselves confused and challenged by unpredictability of life paths, labour market instability and necessary revisions to vocational careers. They may be helped by professional support institutions. For some people, seeking professional help when facing a predicament is evidence of resourcefulness.…

This article reports on the value of career construction counselling for a black man facing a career crossroads. The participant was purposefully selected from a number of people participating in a career construction counselling course who had sought career counselling. An intrinsic, single-case study design was implemented and a qualitative,…

This article focuses on determining the school counseling activities perceived as important by a sample of Latino high school students. The researchers explored student perceptions through the administration of a survey instrument created for this project to better understand Latino students' perceptions and satisfaction with school counselor…